Quotes About Suffering

Jesus was born of a woman so you and I could be born of God. He humbled Himself so that we could be lifted up. He became a servant so that we could be made joint heirs with Him. He suffered rejection so that we could become His friends. He denied Himself so that we could freely receive all things. He gave Himself so that He could bless us in every way. Wow. Our Own Paradox The real issues aren't the quarks that hold together our physical bodies.

People fall so in love with their pain, they can't leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.

Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.

There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

If we can forgive what has been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we've done to others . . . If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villians or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world. But we still sit here, waiting to be saved. While we're still victims, hoping to be discovered while we suffer.

Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room light, nothing had been right. Nothing had been as comfortable or felt so good. Just the effort it took to keep your stupid physical body alive, just finding food and cooking it and dishwashing, the keeping warm and bathing and sleeping, the walking and bowel movements and ingrown hairs, it was all getting to be too much work.

Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.

Which is worse: Hell or nothing?

With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

I suppose it's comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.

He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.

There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.

You'll need to suffer to make any real art.

Many people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

How torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

Maybe people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

Which is worse, Hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.

Put the gun to my head and paint walls with my brains.

We love our pain. We love our drama. But we will never, ever admit that.

The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.